· Public charity
Trustees of Deerfield Academy
Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF DEERFIELD | $250,000 |
| DEERFIELD AREA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY | $13,637 |
| HISTORIC DEERFIELD | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTOWN OF DEERFIELD8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M
- DADEERFIELD AREA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT9× · 2017–2025 · $211k
- UWUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue -25%
Funded once
- TFTILTON FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -42% · 30% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $34k
- NYNORTHAMPTON YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ROWING INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +21%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To secure contributions to help support the operational and capital needs of the tiverton public library.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The preservation and interpretation of the history of the Town of Walpole
The organization's mission is to celebrate the history, architecture, landscape and material culture of the hudson valley, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation.
Public library serving the community of branford, ct.
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
Collections of the town's historical development are shared with the community by exhibits, presentations, and other activities.
The acquisition of objects of major historic and/or artistic importance to nantucket and its peoples and to donate such objects to the nantucket historical association for public display in its museums and historical properties.
Provide a competitive rowing program for high school students and provide recreational rowing training for members of the community.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TILTON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trustees of Deerfield Academy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of Deerfield Academy. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc: 9% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc: 1% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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